<nettime> CPSR Conference: GLOBAL INTERNET ADMINISTRATION

["Hans K. Klein" <hans.klein@pubpolicy.gatech.edu> (by way of PaulGarrin)]

Dear Friends and Colleagues,
You might find the following conference announcement of interest.
Hans Klein



        [Please re-post until Sept. 25]

      * * * Conference Announcement * * *

          Computer Professionals for
         Social Responsibility (CPSR)

                   presents

             GOVERNING THE COMMONS:
    THE FUTURE OF GLOBAL INTERNET ADMINISTRATION

               September 24-25
            (Friday and Saturday)
              Hilton Mark Hotel
            Alexandria, Virginia

http://www.cpsr.org/conferences/dns99/dnsconf99.htm


CONFERENCE THEMES

The implementation of a global institution for Internet administration
continues to raise vexing policy questions.  As the new Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) completes its first
year of existence, supporters and critics have differed sharply in their
assessments.  Disagreements have emerged between individuals, firms, and
countries -- and even between different branches of the U.S.  government.
This has polarized debate and impeded information exchange between
parties. 
   This conference seeks to move attention back to the issues.  CPSR will
provide a forum in which stakeholders can engage in a civil discussion of
potentially contentious issues.  The value of this event will be to allow
parties to articulate their positions in public, to engage in moderated
debate with other parties, and to educate a broad audience of policymakers
and stakeholders.  The conference program will address three broad topics: 

 1. ICANN and the Emerging Institutional Order
 2. Competition in the Domain Name System
 3. New Technologies Impacting Internet Administration

PROGRAM

Friday Afternoon, Sept. 24 (begins at 1 PM)

Session:  Introduction  to Issues
---------------------------------
Session Chair:  Harry Hochheiser, University of Maryland & CPSR
Jean Camp, Assistant Prof., Harvard University Kennedy
 School of Government & CPSR
Hans Klein, Assistant Prof., Georgia Institute of
 Technology School of Public Policy & CPSR


Session:  Internet Registries: Competition or Sharing?
------------------------------------------------------
Session Chair: Milton Mueller, Assoc. Prof., Syracuse
University School of Information Studies
  Mike Vita, Federal Trade Commission
  Paul Garrin, Founder and CEO, Name.Space, Inc.
  Chris Ambler, Image Online Design, Inc.


Friday Evening
Reception   5:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Friday night
BOF meetings ("Birds of a Feather" topical groups)


Saturday Morning, Sept. 25

Session: Technological Change and Institutional Design
------------------------------------------------------
Session Chair, Hans Klein, Asst. Prof., Georgia
  Institute of Technology School of Public Policy & CPSR
Scott Bradner, Senior Technical Consultant, Harvard
  University; VP for Standards, Internet Society
Karl Auerbach, Co-chair, IETF Working Group on
  Procedures and Policies (POISED)
Peter Deutsch, President, Shophound Inc.
Invited:
  RealNames Corporation


Session:  Stakeholders Panel
----------------------------
Moderator:  Coralee Whitcomb, President, CPSR
Don Telage, Senior Vice President, Network Solutions, Inc.
Esther Dyson, Interim Chair, ICANN
Dale Hatfield, FCC (invited)
David Post, Associate Professor, Temple University
  School of Law
Jamie Love, Consumer Project on Technology
David Farber, Professor of Telecommunications,
  University of Pennsylvania (invited)
Invited:
National Telecommunications and Information
   Administration (NTIA)
European Commission
U.S. Congress

Saturday Afternoon, Sept. 25

Session:  The Big Picture:  Internet and Global
Telecommunications Order
-----------------------------------------------
Session Chair: Rick Barry, CPSR
Esther Dyson, Interim Chair, ICANN
Tony Rutkowski, President, NGI Associates
Milton Mueller, Assoc. Prof., Syracuse University
  School of Information Studies
Michael Froomkin, University of Miami School of Law


Conference Ends at 4 PM


To book a hotel room, call:
   HILTON HOTEL AT MARK CENTER
   5000 SEMINARY ROAD
   ALEXANDRIA, VA 22311
   (703)845-1010

To register for the conference, please see:
        http://www.cpsr.org/conferences/dns99/dnsconf99.htm

Or send Email to cpsr@cpsr.org

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  Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR)

  CPSR is an organization that addresses the benefits and risks to society
  of information technology.  For information, please visit the CPSR
  web page at http://www.cpsr.org

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